Cryptocurrency

Blockchain hashing, wallets and on-chain incidents. Clear-eyed coverage of how crypto works under the hood, the security trade-offs, and the hacks and exploits worth learning from.

Bitget Confirms $351.6M Hack, 2026’s Biggest [2026]

A crypto exchange lost more than a third of a billion dollars on Thursday, and by Friday morning traders had mostly shrugged it off. Bitget confirmed that $351.6…
By Marcus Bell · Sep 25, 2026

Self-Custody Wallet Setup: 12 Steps, 90 Minutes [2026]

Bybit lost roughly $1.5 billion in ETH and staked-ether assets in one of the largest exchange hacks on record, an attack U.S. authorities later tied to North Korea’s…
By Priya Anand · Sep 24, 2026

Cosmos EVM Bug Drains 6 Chains, Missed 4 Months [2026]

A bug that Cosmos Labs decided in May 2026 was not worth telling anyone about ended up draining six blockchains in the span of five days. The flaw,…
By Laura Bennett · Sep 24, 2026

Cross-Chain Bridge Exploit Testing: 12 Foundry Steps [2026]

Three cross-chain bridges lost a combined nine figures in 2026, and none of the exploits involved a broken cryptographic primitive. Nomic’s forwarding logic let an attacker double-spend Bitcoin…
By Marcus Bell · Sep 24, 2026

LDK, Core Lightning, Eclair Patch Bugs in 5 Days [2026]

Three separate teams that build the software running Bitcoin’s Lightning Network shipped critical security patches inside the same two-week stretch this month. Lightning Development Kit (LDK), Core Lightning…
By Dr. Heinrich Vogel · Sep 23, 2026

Truncation Bug Testing: 12 Foundry Steps, $1.7M Lost [2026]

Solidity has caught raw integer overflow since version 0.8.0. That fixed the easy bugs. It did nothing for the harder ones: truncation from unsafe downcasts, division-order mistakes that…
By Dr. Elena Marchetti · Sep 22, 2026

MEV-Boost Setup: 12 Steps, Up to 1% More Yield [2026]

Run an Ethereum validator without MEV-Boost and you leave money on the table. Every block your validator proposes without it goes through local building only, which means you…
By Dr. Elena Marchetti · Sep 22, 2026

Haruko Cyberattack Exposes 15 Crypto Funds’ API Keys [2026]

A vendor almost nobody outside institutional trading desks had heard of a week ago is now the center of a live case study in third-party crypto risk. Haruko,…
By Dr. Elena Marchetti · Sep 22, 2026

Across Bridge SDK: Automate L2 Transfers in 12 Steps [2026]

Across has settled more than $27.5 billion in transfers across 17.3 million individual deposits for over 4 million users, according to the protocol’s own mid-2025 usage figures, making…
By Dr. Heinrich Vogel · Sep 21, 2026

Ledger Ethereum App 1.22.1 Flaw: 0 Funds Lost [2026]

A hardware wallet maker just showed the industry how a signing bug can slip past a screen a user is staring at. On August 28, 2026, OneKey’s internal…
By Priya Anand · Sep 21, 2026

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